Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-16

woman who lured him to his destiny be-
cause she was pure, modest. CULTIVATED,
refined. inlhis eyes alperfect female. She
is his against the univere. He, wants
her The possession must be absolute
anse unauestioned None OF the graces,
the pleasures, or the obligations of
what is. known as society need to be pat
away or abandoned for single moment.
The only stipulation that the man makes
is for home, for his wife to be mistress
of,that home, and for his own inexora-
BILE possession of that mistress and that
household.
How, then, must he feel when one
day he aW'akes to the realization of the
fact that the woman of his idolatry is
about to become an actress. That tho
modesty which once shrank timidly
from, the h,shful ardor of his own WOO
ing is aborIj to face with brazen stare
the hatefuIt simmer of the footlights.
That the cheeks which once burnt red
under sir,gle caress is about to be
slobbered over by professional lechers.
That the lips that had told him of her
love in the soft hush of the twilight
were to hava lips laid upon them that
never made "a vow of passion that was
not broken, II or plighted faith to a con-
tiding woman that did not wreck her
life by wrecking chastity. That the
form which oM,e to him was all that he
had imagined df the grace and poetry
of motion was tt, be girt about by other
arms and find rest and contentment
upon other boson>s.
What if it is all acting, and simula-
ton, and make-E'elieve, did the man
marry the woman ito get only acting,
and stimulation, and makc-believe? 1t
is the contamination which kills him
to the soul. 1t is the fondling, the
kissing, the caressing, the slobbering
which makes the farce so horrible to
him. 1t is the bosom bear to the
breasts which makes him shudder as
one is supposed TO shudder when some-
body treads upon the spot whore he is
to be buried. lh is the exposuretof
person which pu,ss the indesclibe.ble
charm of modesty to death, and prlts in
the place of the one holy and idola-
trons love of his lifetime n painted,
rouged, furbelowed, and bedizened
thing, running hither and thither at the
call of this or that manager, set upon
by libertines, conned over by insuffer-
able puppies, persecut cd with indecent
proposals, besought for Interviews and
assignations-in the ns.me of everything
which goes to make ulpfthe humanizing
influences of home and the tranquil
and sustaining plea sures OF married
life, what is man sto do under such
circumstances except &to subjugate his
wife or quit her.
In the old days in E:ome if she had
not listened to and tobeyed her hus-
band she would have been killed. A
little touch of the steel even now might
not be bad transactiorl. If the family
is to continue in the future as it has
been in the past-the bulwark of lib
erty and the adaman! iine foundation of
the State-more power ought to be
given to the head of sit. In the days
when giants were, theswives wera home
women and perfectly obedient. One
would no more have thought of aspir-
ing to any public position without her
husbands consent, much less OF be-
coming. an actress, tllan she would have
thought of strangli,g her sleeping first
born in its cradle. 1t is now time for
old things to become new again. Kan
sas City lajmes.